Crystal River current. [volume] (Crystal, Colo.) 1886-18??, 1887-09-03
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gist, is dead.
Ninety men are employed in the La
Junta round house.
A terrific hail storm visited Atchison.
Kansas, last Saturday.
Mr.. Powderly denies that he is con-
nected with the American party.
The rice crop in South Carolina is
suffering and will prove IA partial failure.
General Black, Commissioner of
Pensions, is seriously ill of infiammatory
rheumatism.
tits estimated that 20 900 veterans will
attend the Grand Army encampment al st.
Louis next month.
Grovesteen Il Pell, stock brokers of
New York, have failed. Their liabilities
are placed at 81 ,365, 900.
Another man was taken from the Jail
in Valentine, Nebraska last week, and
hanged for attempted rape.
The Socialists of New York City held
meeting at Cooper Union at which Henry
George was bitterly denounced.
The thirteenth annual convention of
the National Conference of Charities and
Corrections is in session at Omaha.
A St. Louis firm has been awarded
the contract for building the United States
Penitentiary at Salt Lake at AS 900.
A San Francisco dispatch says
Mackay and Flood lost q, O00, 600 in the re-
cent disastrous wheat deal in that city.
There were 200 delegates present at
the convention of the New York Prohibi
tionists. The usual platform was adopted.
The Union Pacific management proposes
to sell its Wyoming coal mines and Colora-
do stone quarries if il can find n purchaser.
President Cleveland has notified the
people of St. Louis that he does not desire
anything savorlng of political demOnstra-
ton.
A reunion of the old-time telegraph
ers and the members of the United States
Military Corps has just been held at Phila
dephia.
The Governor-General of Cuba has
made personal inspection of the Havana
cusiom-house and as a result he fired all the
employees.
Fifty applications have been made by
newspaper representatives for permission
to ride in the press car during the Presi-
dents western trip.
The New York City Knights of Labor
have elected an anti-PowderIy delegation
to the General Assembly which meets II,
Minneapolis this fall.
DIR. N. A. Archer, one of the profess
sors in the University of Pennsylvania, was
drowned while bathing in the surf at At
lantic City, New Jersey.
Two brothers named John and
Frank Newer were killed near Exeter, Ne
braska, while resisting the efforts of some
railroad men to steal key of beer.
b. S. Richardson. who edits the
Northwestern, who shot and killed "Skip'
Willard of the Sherman County Times, has
been acquitted at Loup City, Nebraska.
A Chicago paper intimates that II
beef famine is likely to ensue next winter
on account of the losses in the West during
last winter and the ensuing dry summer.
The various expeditions which went
to Russia to observe the total eclipse of the
sun did not meet with very great success
on account of o. sky being obscured by
clouds.
At the opening of the trial of a band
OF Bald-Knobbers at Ozark, Missouri, one
of them pleaded guilty and threw himself
on the mercy of the Court. He is a Baptist
preacher.
Interviews with the leading firms in
the various branches of trade in New York
City show that general business is in very
satisfactory condition. Collections are re-
ported good and healthy tone pervades
all lines of trade.
Two agents of the Maxwell Grant
Company who went to Vcrmijo Park to ne
gotiate with the settlers were disarlned and
told to travel, which they did without delay,
On their way they were overtaken and their
weapons returned.
1t is reported that fresh attempt to
kill the Gar was made on the Goth inst. A
Nihilist, disguised as an officer of the
guards, approached the imperial carriage
on the journey from St. Petersburg to
Krasnoeselo and fired revolver twice.
The first shot missed the Gar, but the sec
ond perforated his coat.
A dispatch from the City of Mexico
says that the unwilling of the statue of Guam
hotomp, the last OF the Aztec emperors.
last Sunday, was tue occasion of unusual
interest and Significance Thousands of
Indians, many of whom came from around
the Capital, bringing with them great ulian-
titles of flowers attended the ceremony.
The members of the Grand Army
who participated in demonstration at
Wheeling on the Goth, refused to pass I'M
der the portrait of President Cleveland sus-
pended from the Register Office. The en-
tire column made detour and dropped the
colors in passing the picture. There were
over 5000 veterans in line from Pennsylva-
mia, Ohio and West Virginia.